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[Left-Right] Logos of Ubie and Google's Health Connect (Beta)
By  Adam Ang 01:03 am May 12, 2023
Ubie ties up with Google's Health Connect (Beta) Japanese health tech startup Ubie is one of the six launch partners of Google for Health Connect (Beta) in Japan. Health Connect (Beta) is an Android platform that allows the easy sharing of data between health and fitness apps. It also enables easy management of health data. This latest partnership connects Ubie AI Symptom Checker, which allows...
Physician sitting in a chair looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:44 pm April 14, 2023
Google has announced that Med-PaLM 2, the tech giant's medical large language model, will be available to select Google Cloud customers in the coming weeks to share feedback, explore use cases and for limited testing.  Med-PaLM 2 is a generative AI technology that utilizes Google's LLMs to answer medical questions.  When tested on U.S. Medical Licensing Examination-style questions, Med-PaLM 2...
An image from the radiotherapy planning model developed by Google and the Mayo Clinic.
By  Emily Olsen 11:15 am March 14, 2023
Google announced a slew of new healthcare AI partnerships Tuesday, as well as an open source tool kit for developing digital health tools and new search functionality. In the AI space, the tech giant said it has been working with the Mayo Clinic for the past three years to research tools for radiotherapy planning during cancer treatment.  The partners focused on developing a model that could...
A Google Pixel Watch displaying a fall detection notification.
By  Emily Olsen 11:19 am March 1, 2023
Google announced Tuesday it had rolled out fall detection features for its Pixel Watch.  According to a blog post, the wearable will use its motion sensors to determine if the user has taken a hard fall. If the watch doesn't sense any movement for about 30 seconds, it will vibrate, sound an alarm and display an on-screen notification, where users can say they're OK or that they need assistance....
Healthcare provider on a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 01:15 pm February 9, 2023
Bipartisan senators sent letters to telehealth providers Monument, Workit Health and Cerebral urging the companies to better protect users' healthcare data.  Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Susan Collins (R-Me.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wa.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo,) expressed concerns that the companies are "tracking and sharing sensitive and personally-identifiable health data with third-party...
Healthcare provider on a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 01:12 pm December 21, 2022
Telehealth company MediOrbis announced a partnership with Kahun, which offers an AI-enabled digital intake tool that conducts clinical assessments via a chatbot and provides recommendations for further evaluation.  MediOrbis, an Ohio-based multi-specialty telehealth company, offers chronic disease management and remote patient monitoring services, a medical weight loss program, virtual primary...
Healthcare provider on a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:17 pm December 12, 2022
Speech recognition-technology company Voiceitt announced it scored $4.7 million in funding. The startup will extend the round to meet a new goal of $10 million. The round was led by AMIT Technion with participation from Third Culture Capital (3CC) and Cisco Investments.   The Israeli company said that it had raised $20 million since its formation in 2012, including $5M of non-dilutive funding...
Person standing outside examining a wearable
By  Jessica Hagen 01:17 pm December 6, 2022
Israeli company ChroniSense Medical received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Polso wearable that collects and shares vital signs via a mobile app for patients and a cloud-based platform for clinicians. The wrist-worn wearable enables clinicians to monitor patients' vitals, including blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate and respiration rate. The company touts the watch as ideal for remote...
A doctor recording a video on her laptop.
By  Emily Olsen 09:47 am October 27, 2022
YouTube is expanding product features that aim to provide information and context about credible health sources to include videos made by licensed healthcare professionals. The health source information panels, which were first introduced in the U.S. last year, label health content from authoritative sources like educational institutions, public health departments, hospitals and government...
Healthcare provider and patient talking to each other
By  Jessica Hagen 01:43 pm October 17, 2022
Eyenuk received $25 million in Series A funding to expand access to its AI-powered eye-screening technology that enables autonomous detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR) during a patient's regular exam. The recent raise was led by AXA IM Alts and joined by new and existing investors, including A&C Foelsgaard Alternativer ApS, T&W Medical A/S, KOFA Healthcare and Kendall Capital Partners...